Texas officials face an audit on the response to the catastrophic and deadly floods

Hours later, he was rushing to safety: he woke up in the dark to electric sockets that appeared and deep water in the ankle. Quickly, his family rushed to nine people in the attic. The flowers were summoned on Saturday, but he did not remember that in the chaos that began in the chaos that began in the chaos that began in the chaos that began in the chaos that began in the chaos that began in the chaos that began in alerts, the flowers were called on Saturday, he did not remember the phones with the alerts, and remembered the flowers on Saturday, but he did not remember when they started chaos.

“What they need is a kind of external system, such as warning the hurricane that tells people to go out now,” said Flas, 44 years old.

the The destroyed water is fast -moving This started before sunrise on Friday in Texas Hill Control At least 43 people were killed In the province of Kiir, the authorities said on Saturday, and an unknown number of people remained missing. Those who are still missing, including 27 girls from Mystic camp, a Christian summer camp along a river in Kiir Province, where most of the dead were recovered.

But with the authorities launching one of the largest efforts made to search and rescue in the last history of Texas, they were subjected to intensifying the preparations for preparations and why the population and summer camps for youth that are spread along the river soon or were asked to evacuate.

The national weather service sent a series of sudden flood warnings in the early hours of Friday before the issuance of emergency cases in the floods – a rare alert that comes to an imminent danger.

Local officials insisted that he had not seen the next flood capabilities and defended their actions.

“There will be a lot of preparation for the fingers, a lot of the second guessy and a quarter on Monday morning,” said Republican MP Cheeb Roy, who includes Kiir Province. “There are a lot of people who say” why “and” How, and I understand it. ”

When the warnings started

A preliminary hour of floods-which generally urges the population to be familiar with the weather-was released before the local national weather service office at 1:18 pm on Thursday.

I expected between 5 to 7 inches (12.7 to 17.8 cm) of rain. Jason Rooney, meteorological specialist at the National Weather Service, said that the air messages from the office, including the automatic alerts that are delivered to the mobile phones of people in threatened areas, have grown increasingly in the early morning hours of Friday, and urged people to move to the upper areas and evacuate areas exposed to floods.

At 4:03 am, the office issued an urgent warning that caused the capabilities of catastrophic damage and a severe threat to human life.

Jonathan Porter, chief meteorologist at Accoweather, a private weather forecast company that uses national weather service, said it seemed evacuation and other proactive measures that could be taken to reduce the death risk.

“People, companies and governments must take measures based on warnings from the floods that are being issued, regardless of the amounts of rain that occurred or expected,” Porter said in a statement.

Officials say they do not expect this

Local officials said they did not expect such intense heavy rains that were equivalent to months in the region.

“We know that we are getting rain. We know that the river is rising,” said Care Rob Kelly province, the boy’s supreme official in the province. “But no one saw this coming.”

Dalton Rice, director of the city of Kerville, said that he was running along the river early this morning and no problems were noticed at four in the morning a little more than an hour, at 5:20 am, the water level increased significantly and “we could almost get out of the garden.”

Rice also pointed out that the audience can become a sensitive to many weather warnings.

There is no flood warning system in the province

Kelly said that the boycott considered a flood warning system along the river that would have been working like sirens that warned the hurricane about six or seven years before its election, but the idea was not running out of the ground because of the expenses.

“We have searched it before … the audience has retracted the cost,” Kelly said.

He said he does not know the type of safety and evacuation plans that may have camps.

“What I know is that the flood hit the camp first, and it came in the middle of the night. I do not know where the children were,” he said. “I don’t know the type of alarm systems they have. This will appear in time.”

On Saturday, US Internal Security Security Security said it was difficult for those who predict the amount of rain. She said that the Trump administration will make the priority of the national weather service promotion used to provide warnings.

“We know that everyone wants more warning time, and for this reason we are working to upgrade the technology that has been neglected for a very long time to ensure that families have the largest possible amount of prior notice,” Nayyu said during a press conference with state leaders and federal leaders.

Weather service had additional employees

Rooney said that the National Weather Services Office in New Brunphels, which provides expectations for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, was additional employees of the service during storms.

Where the office usually has two of the service foreclosure during the clear weather, they had up to five employees.

“There were additional people here that night, and this is a typical thing in every weather service office – you are employees in an event and bring people in additional work and raise people.”